If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) August 16, 2026
1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.
1900s: you rub… pic.twitter.com/xb4UxhNp1l
Past a certain age, a man no longer speaks in terms of should or could, but instead is and will.
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) August 15, 2026
He ceases to live in the irrealis of the subjunctive and conditional, preferring the hard indicative and future tenses.
The hour grows late for hypotheticals and counterfactuals.
Incredible video of a Ukrainian commander of the 475th regiment without body armour rescuing two heavily injured Ukrainian soldiers with truck after their evacuation robot became damaged on the frontline from FPV drone attacks putting himself in grave danger.
— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) August 16, 2026
Very brave. pic.twitter.com/UL8h6rPH41
This story gets crazier. The Mayor of Lawrence, left court today in a Dodge Charger and rammed into another car and left the scene. Same Mayor that can't speak English, and stole $1.5M in covid money. https://t.co/kGWRp0O6o5 pic.twitter.com/JvoCF11yJo
— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) August 15, 2026
Stereotypes are true and accurate:
— John Rain (@johnthenoticer) August 15, 2026
Alice Eagly and Judith Hall conducted a meta-analysis on the accuracy of stereotypes regarding differences between men and women.
They confirmed that these stereotypes are highly accurate: 85% of the 673 estimates were in the correct… pic.twitter.com/R81E4YP4WR
Is anyone else amazed by how much of a global presence Jamaica has, considering the island has only about 2.8 million residents and roughly 4.4 million Jamaicans worldwide?
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 16, 2026
Jamaica might be the ultimate example of a country that punches far above its weight. With a population of… pic.twitter.com/xZ18oraa2S
I am an Electrician,I could spot an unqualified person a mile away, give me a building to wire and put a person pretending to be one beside me and within minutes I will suss them out,Cambridge couldn't do this for 3 years with someone impersonating a professor,this is on them!
— Make Ireland Great Again (@MIGA_FOR_EVER) August 15, 2026
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) August 15, 2026
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and… https://t.co/ko3k9Um7TK
Hey hooman, can I have some..🐕🐾😍 pic.twitter.com/9tcqVl7pbd
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 16, 2026
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